~ You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it ~
~ I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn ~
~ The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity. ~
~ Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art ~
~ Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say ~
~ Blessed be the inventor of photography It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones. ~
~ You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~
~ Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I"m glad I have that moment. ~
~ This is a perfect world
I'm riding on an incline
I'm staring in your face
You'll photograph mine ~
~ Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour. ~